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Siemens Power Unit Probed
As Bribe Case Broadens

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Mike Esterl and

David Crawford

Updated April 15, 2008 12:01 a.m. ET

German prosecutors have broadened their bribery investigation at Siemens AG to include its power-transmission business, suggesting legal woes at Europe's largest engineering conglomerate are far from over.

Authorities in Munich also said Uriel Sharef, who oversaw the power-generation and transmission businesses as well as the Americas region before stepping down from Siemens's management board last December, is a criminal suspect. Prosecutors have already named other top former executives as suspects in the massive...